The Van Cliburn Foundation has announced the 30 competitors for the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which will be held May 24-June 9 at Fort Worth’s Bass Performance Hall.

After a strong dominance of Asian pianists in the 2009 contest, the United States will have the largest contingent — eight — this time. The list even includes a Dallas pianist, Alex McDonald, two current students at Texas Christian University, Marcin Koziak and YouYou Zhang, and one previous TCU student, Jie Yuan.

A five-person jury auditioned 132 applicants in January and February in Hong Kong; Hannover, Germany; Moscow; Milan; New York; and Fort Worth. The Cliburn is open to pianists who will be 19 to 30 at the time of the competition.

The competitors, with their home countries and ages at the time of the competition, are:

Luca Buratto, 20, Italy

Sean Chen, 24, U.S.

Alexey Chernov, 30, Russia

Sara Daneshpour, 26, U.S.

Alessandro Deljavan, 26, Italy

Fei-Fei Dong, 22, China

François Dumont, 27, France

Yury Favorin, 26, Russia

Lindsay Garritson, 25, U.S.

Jayson Gillham, 26, Australia

Giuseppe Greco, 23, Italy

Ruoyu Huang, 24, China

Claire Huangci, 23, U.S.

Vadym Kholodenko, 26, Ukraine

Nikolay Khozyainov, 20, Russia

Marcin Koziak, 24, Poland

Kuan-Ting Lin, 21, Taiwan

Steven Lin, 24, U.S.

Alex McDonald, 30, U.S.

Gustavo Miranda-Bernales, 22, Chile

Nikita Mndoyants, 24, Russia

Oleksandr Poliykov, 25, Ukraine

Beatrice Rana, 20, Italy

Tomoki Sakata, 19, Japan

Scipione Sangiovanni, 25, Italy

Hyung-Min Suh, 23, South Korea

Alessandro Taverna, 29, Italy

Jie Yuan, 27, China

YouYou Zhang, 29, U.S.

Eric Zuber, 28, U.S.

Subscription packages range from $110 to $2,000. Single tickets go on sale in the spring. Information: 817-738-6536. cliburn.org.